Ch. 5 Flashcards

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French trapper who explored the upper Mississippi River

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Louis Joliet

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French priest who explored the upper Mississippi River

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Jacques Marquette

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What the French call the territory they claimed along the Mississippi River

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Louisiana

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Resourceful French commander during King William’s war

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Comte de Frontenac

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Colonial commander who fought in the skirmish of the French and Indian War

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George Washington

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Surprise attacks by small, hidden groups

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Guerrilla warfare

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Author of a proposal to unite the colonies against France

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Benjamin Franklin

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important fort the French build at the forks of the Ohio river at the outset of the French and Indian war

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Fort Duquesne

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What colonial congress attempted unsuccessfully to unite the colonies during the French and Indian war

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Albany congress

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British commander who was badly defeated by French and Indian forces

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Edward Braddock

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Talented British General who died capturing Quebec

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James Wolfe

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Prime minister of Great Britain who won the Seven Years War

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William Pitt

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British King who antagonized the colonists

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King George 3

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Indian cheif who confederacy devastated the frontier

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Pontiac

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Requirement that salaries, taxes and expenditures be scrutinized by elected officials

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Power of the purse

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British prime minister who attempted to collect new taxes from the colonies

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George Grenville

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Ban on colonization beyond the Appalachian Mountains

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Proclamation line

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Any tax on goods that are produced and consumed entirely within a country

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Internal tax

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Organization that opposed the tyranny if British rule

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Sons of Liberty

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British attempt to tax legal and commercial documents in the colonies

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Stamp act

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Requirement that the colonists help supply the British army

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Quartering act

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Orator from Virginia who opposed British tyranny

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Patrick Henry

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Leader of the sons of Liberty

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Samuel Adams

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A repressive series of direct taxes on various colonial goods, such as glass

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Townshend acts

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Author of the “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies”

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John Dickinson

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What infamous incident did British redcoats kill five unarmed Patriots in 1770.

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Boston Massacre